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LIFE OF CHARLES HALIDAT. xli
passing through or being detained in the Downs. Thus was
the Chamber of Commerce enabled to relieve the trade of
Dublin and of Ireland from another of those exactions to
which it had been long subjected, "exactions which, though
separately they might not be of a large amount (continues
the Report), were in the aggregate a heavy burden on the
foivi^n trade of Ireland, and particularly objectionable in
this instance, as the Legislature unquestionably did not
intend that this tax should be levied in Ireland for the
maintenance of an English harbour."
In these Reports will be found Mr. Haliday's careful state- Testimonials of
ment of the point, forcibly put, and supported by convincing secretary of
evidence, showing a great amount of labour and an equal
amount of intelligence. When he retired from the office of
Honorary Secretary to the Chamber, he received a handsome
present of silver plate, with the following inscription :
The Merchants of Dublin to Charles Haliday, Esq.
In testimony of their high sense of his eminent public services
during the seventeen years in which he filled the office of Honorary
Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce.
Sir T.O'Brien,Bart,LordMayor.
Arthur Guinness.
Edward Atkinson.
Wm. Murphy.
James Murphy.
George M'Bride.
J. C. Bacon. John M'Donnell.
Jolm Martin. Sir Edward M'Donnell.
Alex. Boyle.
Thomas Bewley.
Joseph Boyce.
Peter Brophy.
Robert Callwell.
Denis Moylan.
Valentine O'Brien O'Connor.
Wm. H. Pirn.
John Power.
Sir James Power.
Francis Codd. Patrick Reid.
Thomas Crosthwaite. George Roe.
Leland Crosthwaite. Philip Meadows Sir John Ennis, Bart.
John English.
John Darcy.
James Fagan.
James Ferrier.
Taylor.
Thomas Wilson.
Francis E. Codd.
T. L. Kelly.
J. B. Kennedy.
Jonathan Pirn.
James Foxall. Alex. Parker.
Benjm. Lee Guinness. George Pirn.
SirJohn Kingston James, Bart. H. Thompson.
Thomas Hutton. William Digges LaTouche.